Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot

2008-01-15 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:57:49 -0800 Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install 7.0RC1 (hope it's OK to post this here, because I believe that older versions of FreeBSD have this same limitation) and came across a gotcha. I had an MBR on disk that I wanted to keep. It was

Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot

2008-01-15 Thread Nerius Landys
I was trying to install 7.0RC1 (hope it's OK to post this here, because I believe that older versions of FreeBSD have this same limitation) and came across a gotcha. I had an MBR on disk that I wanted to keep. It was Lilo and all it did was boot a selected slice, it was configured to

Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot

2008-01-15 Thread Nikola Lečić
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:52:26 -0800 Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Grub installed at the beginning of /dev/hda1, and Lilo [when I had it installed before changing it to `boot0'] passed control to Grub just fine when booting ``Ubuntu''. You can see that the logic for

Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot

2008-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Nikola Lečić wrote: P.S. I hope I'm doing the quoting thing ``properly'', not incorrectly. IMHO there is neither FreeBSD- nor Linux-specific mails, and there shouldn't be such thing. These mails are written in English, so it seems that neither of us is right:

Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot

2008-01-15 Thread Nerius Landys
Yes, I figured using `bsdlabel' would install /boot/boot to the beginning of the slice. However, I cannot [easily] run `bsdlabel' without being booted into the FreeBSD OS. I can't run the OS without /boot/boot being installed to the beginning of the FreeBSD slice. Chicken and egg